Joseph Wechsberg

PROFILE of French chef, Michel Guerard, noted for his novel approach to cooking which he calls la cuisine minceur. He plans to open a restaurant in …

PROFILE of Willy Brandt, 61, Chancellor of West Germany & chairman of the German Social Democratic Party. He is more a European statesman than a German …

PROFILE of a symphony orchestra; the Cleveland Orchestra, whose conductor has been George Szell since 1946. It is one of the 5 leading orchestras in the …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. For the first time in years travel restrictions had been lifted in Czechoslovakia, and it …

PROFILE of Vienna. The earliest document of the city is 1137. The Hapsburgs came to power in 1278 & flourished. The city was always famous for good living …

PROFILE of Raffaele Mattioli, chairman of the board of directors of the Banca Commerciale Italiana, or BCI, in Milan, whos destiny he has guided for more …

PROFILE of Siegmund G. Warburg, one of the most powerful merchant bankers in the City of London, and member of a powerful banking family on the Continent. …

PROFILE of Hambros Bank Ltd., London, tells about a loan the Finance Minister of Sardinia, Count di Cavour obtained from Hambros. In 1851, the Kingdom of …

PROFILE of Mme. Marie-Louise Point, Fernand Point's widow who, since his death in 1955, has managed the famous Restaurant de la Pyramide. Seven years …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Mont Blanc Tunnel, the world's longest highway tunnel, almost 8 miles long, between Chamoix, France and Courmayeur, Italy. …

PROFILE of the Viennese actor, playwright, mimic, philosopher, nonconformist, & congenital oppositionist, who, with a collaborator named Carl Merz, wrote …

PROFILE of Hermann Gmeiner, 43-year-old Austrian, who 13 years ago became concerned over the plight of his country's homeless children. Today he leads …

PROFILE of Maurice Pate, executive director of UNICEF. Six years ago, there were over 2 million cases of chronic malaria in the Mexican lowlands. Malaria …

REPORTER AT LARGE about London fog. London is the largest urban area that is regularly afflicted with fogs, and for centuries no fogs have had more …

PROFILE of Otto Molden, a 43-year-old Viennese, the founder of the European Forum, in Alpbach, Austria -a program of lectures, seminars, & roundtable …

PROFILE of Franz Allers, musical director of "My Fair Lady." The man who originally conceived the notion of making a musical out of "Pygmalion" was Gabriel…

REPORTER AT LARGE about Roger Topolinski & his famous Paris restaurant Laperouse. lt is a century-old institution, long regarded as one of the best eating …

PROFILE of Artur Rubinstein, the pianist, tells about a concert he gave in Paris, at which he played Chopin and Saint-Saens with the Orchestre Lamoureux. …

PROFILE of Alexis Lichine, wine expert, grower & importer. He is also an exporter of his own and other wines-operating through the French firm of Alexis …

PROFILE of Alexis Lichine, the wine importer. In 1942, Lichine was sent to Casablanca. Here he wangled himself a full colonel's billet and moved into a…

PROFILE of George London, who is scheduled to begin his 6th consecutive season at the Metropolitan Opera House. He was born in Montreal in 1920, the only …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Lindt & Sprungli chocolate factory at Kilchberg, Switzerland, the 2nd largest of the 36 chocolate factories in Switzerland. No …

PROFILE of Robert Bellet, commissaire principal, or chief purser of the French Line ship, the Liberte. At the moment the French Line has only 26 …

REPORTER AT LARGE about avalanches in the Austrian Alps, avalanche victims & what is being done in the way of avalanche control. Zurs, a cluster of …

PROFILE of Leopold Godwsky, violinist & son of pianist Leopold Godowsky, tells how he & his friend Leopold Mannes invented the Kodachrome color process. …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Bayreuth Festival--the Wagner music festival in Bavaria. History of the festival, founded by Wagner in 1876. From the beginning…

PROFILE of Leo Cesoli, senior conducteur of the Austrian Division of the Compagnie Grands Express Europeen, which operates most of Europe's, …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Mittenwald, in Bavaria, a famous old violin-making town whose business is now nearly dead. Gives history of the town. …

PROFILE of Fritz Frey, 39-year-old Swiss industralist & owner of the largest private-hotel business in the country. The main part of it consists of three …

PROFILE of Alexandre Dumaine, one of the most decorated French chefs, proprietor of Hotel Cote-d'Or. One of the most passionately dedicated and …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a performance of "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona. From Nov. to Apr. the city goes opera-crazy. …

PROFILE of Leopold Ludwig, now director & conductor of the Hamburg State Opera. A few days after V. E. Day, the Russians ordered Ludwig to round up an …

PROFILE of Emil Herrmann, a rare-violin dealer, now doing business on his estate called Fiddledale, in Easton, Conn. He owns what is considered the …

REPORTER about Warner Asendorf, a German citizen, who has been married to an American since 1939. He was once a regional leader in the Hitler Jugend (Nazi …

PROFILE of Henri Soule, proprietor of le Pavillon, a French restaurant, E. 55th St. M. Soule was born in a tiny hamlet halfway bets. Dax & Bayonne. He …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a former Polish diplomat (the writer calls him Krakowski), attached to the Polish embassy in a Western European country until quite…

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Russian operated uranium mines at Jachymov (formerly Joachimsthal), Czechoslovakia The writer learned about conditions in the …

REPORTER AT LARGE about rubble removal in Berlin. Of the 98 million cubic yards of rubble, only 29 million, or not quite a third, have been removed so far.…

Libya, former Italian colony, will become an independent federal state according to a declaration of the United Nations, not later than Jan., 1952. There …

REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with Dr. Theo Friedenau, Chairman of the Investigation Comm. of Freedom-Minded Jurists in the Soviet Zone, an …

REPORTER AT LARGE about observing the Lord Mayor of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter at work. Background of the city's administration; and what has been …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Karel Janda family, of Prague, mother, father, an 18-year-old son, and a 12-year-old daughter. The family was in comfortable …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the attempt to gather members of the 1924 class of the Moravski Ostrava Gymnasium to a reunion in Prague, in 1950. Of the 39 …

PROFILE of a Monte Carlo croupier, Gaston Raymond an of the Casino. It was founded in 1858, at the request of Prince Charles III of Monaco. The first …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest, owned and run by Charles Gundel, a 65-year-old Budapestian who has contributed more to the …

Reporter: Visit to Cremona, Italy, home of Antonio Stradivari, celebrated 16th century violinmaker. Renzo Bacchetta, a professor at the Scuola …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the massacre at Lidice, the destruction of the city by the Germans. Of the village's 500 inhabitants, 192 men & boys were shot,…

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the town of Moravska- Ostrava, in Czechoslovakia, which is today a Russian garrison town. Tells about finding the only …

Monte Carlo. The accordion player who performed lying down. He was also a ballet enthusiast and knew most of the members of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. …